I just got my old Dell running after 4 years of sitting in the garage. It doesn’t have any virus protection on it and I’m wondering if someone can recommend some good free software that I can download. Thanks for any answers!

I am running windows xp and have recently downloaded several programs that say they are free but they only scan for free they don’t remove anything. You have to pay for that service. If someone can tell me where to get a free copy of one that will remove the garbage let me know. If it works you will surely get ten points…
Please help I can’t afford to buy one right now…

The european magazine in its spanish version PC-Actual has made as annually, a series of proves on various Safety suites: BIT-DEFENDER, CA, F-SECURE, CA, KASPERSKY AVG, MACAFEE, PANDA, SYMANTEC, ASP and TREND MICRO. As the magazine is european, it’s very possible you know the name in UK.
Thera are many data, so I’m going to give you the absolute result and the relation value/price:
- Bit Defender: 8,5 – 8,7
- CA: 7,7 – 7,5
- F.Secure: 6,6 – 7,2
- G-Data: 8,5 – 9,0
- Kaspersky AVG: 8,0 – 8,2
- MacAfee: 8,5 – 8,8
- Panda : 8,6 – 9,0
- SP 7,3 – 7,5
- Symantec: 7,3 – 7,1
- Trend Micro: 8,1 – 8,9
The propietaru of the magazine is RBA Edipresse. The edition is a Spanish one, but this comparition is made for all of them in Europe. I buy it many years ago, and there’s not commercial influences.
Hope this would be useful for you.
Best hopes. Good bye.

If you try to screw me and recommend pay sites and free trial sites, I will remove your answers and report you. Thanks!!!

removal it redirects me to a bad site or it says xplore cannot display the page. What can I do?

get the following, all are free for a safe surfing experience,
ANTI VIRAL
AVG (free) http://free.grisoft.com/
FIREWALL
ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/co…
WEB BROWSER – http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird
EMAIL use thunderbird. It has a good built in spam filter and learns when you teach it. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderb…
SPYWAREhttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaw…http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index…
and if you have a wireless router follow these tips,
1. Use WPA encryption (WPA-PSK) it’s less crackable then WEP.
2. Make a passphrase that is upper & lower case and has some numbers thrown in there as well, again harder to crack.
some like mAkE1t5eCurE0rel53 and as long as possible.
3. Use MAC access control so only you or authorized PC’s can connect (even if you do have encryption turned on)
4. Turn off DHCP use static addresses.
5. Turn off SSID (and change it) unless your card really needs it (some do)
6. Change username/password of access unit front end
7. Ensure you have the usual firewall enabled on your PC.
8. Paranoia rules, turn WLAN off if your not using it
one last tip
control panel—administrator tools–services–messenger
right clik on it
stop the service
then disable it
save changes

i really need to get rid of this trojen carrying spyware. this is killing my computer and i cant do anything without it popping up. please anything that will get rid of it.

Its a new HP laptop – I will be downloading a lot of songs

use both memtioned above, there both free.
(Ad aware, spybot)http://www.lavasoftusa.com/http://www.safer-networking.org/

Have strange pop ups about trojans and dont have a clue where they came from?? Pop ups want to install spy bot or antivermin and stuff..Help!